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Week #41- Objective-C

Posted 24 November 2010 - 06:04 PM

This week's challenge is Objective-C.

Objective-C was developed in the 1980's as a means to incorporate Smalltalk's messaging system with C-like syntax to develop an Object-Oriented C language, though in a different way than C++. Objective-C is categorized a a strict superset of C. In fact, C syntax will compile on any Objective-C compiler and can be freely used in any Objective-C class. Like Smalltalk, Objective-C also supports dynamic typing. Apple has really taken off with Objective-C, with its Cocoa API for developing applications for the Macintosh OS, iPhone, and iPad.